Re: want to speed up laptop
Chris Bannister wrote:
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Where are your bottlenecks?
currently my two biggest bottlenecks are with the networking and the
MTA. i installed "ifplugd" and set a faster timeout for the network and
that has helped. i don't really "need" a MTA for my laptop and will be
looking for some alternative. have thought about just removing Exim and
dealing with whatever dependency issues arise. i can always just look
at the log files for info if i need to.
I altered the link from /bin/sh to point to /bin/dash instead of
/bin/bash but I'm not sure if I got a big improvement. It seems
reasonably fast though. :-)
i have been using zsh recently and it has worked pretty well so far.
Also for general performance, try not to run X if you can help it. :-)
i tend to use window-managers (FVWM-Crystal, Fluxbox) over desktops
(Gnome, KDE) with a slew of terminal programs.
my next step (which probably should have been my first), is playing with
bootchart and looking for areas to improve. then i will get to
compiling my own kernel. the generic one is great, but with one
specific to the machine i should pick up some more speed.
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